Example Sentences

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Much attention has been focused on how Thomas' sponsor and benefactor is an apparent Nazi fetishist.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2023

“In Fabric” is the latest blissfully deranged B-movie homage from the British-born writer-director Peter Strickland, who over the past several years has become a witty and imaginative fetishist of various strains of exploitation cinema.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2019

Just about everyone Plum meets — radical, cop, boss, weight-loss guru, fetishist — wants something from her, wants her to see herself a certain way.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2018

Hollywood is the world’s number one gun fetishist.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2017

And one of those characters—as Stewart might put it, the guy from Jersey, the Dr. Seuss fetishist, the Aqua Buddha ophthalmologist, the little brother of the other guy—has to get the nomination.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2015